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Photos: Nick Jonas and Bebe Rexha Perform at the House of Blues in Chicago

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Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration
Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration

Last night, singer Nick Jonas performed for a packed crowd at the legendary House of Blues in Chicago, IL. With his special guest, singer/songwriter Bebe Rexha, the two certainly delivered a performance that their Chicago fans will remember for quite some time.

The night started as Rexha hit the stage, and despite being second billing on the tour, Bebe embraced her role of warming the crowd up for Nick Jonas. However, despite her emerging status, you could still hear a large number of her fans singing along in the crowd. Kicking off her career as a songwriter, and getting her first big check when she wrote Eminem and Rihanna’s hit single ‘The Monster’, Bebe performed a great mix of some of her single records with a number of other artists’ songs that Rexha has contributed to in the past few years. The highlight of her set came as she closed with an energetic performance of her big single, ‘I Can’t Stop Drinking About You’.

Soon after Rexha said goodbye to the Chicago crowd, Nick Jonas was ready to greet his Windy City fans. The lights were dim as Nick’s two lead female guitarists gave a killer introduction as Nick emerged. Opening with his record ‘Chains’, the second half of the night couldn’t have started off better. While Nick’s solo career is still relatively new, and with many still associate him with his brothers, it wasn’t long into his set that you realize his solo career has already well surpassed his work with the Jonas Brothers. Nick performed radio hit-after-hit, with a lot of his B-side tracks throughout and a beautiful acoustic performance of ‘A Little Bit Longer’, until he capped the night with an encore performance of ‘Jealous’.

Check out our photos and the official set list below and be sure to check out if Nick and Bebe are coming to a city near you.

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Riot Fest (Chicago) Day 3 in Photos: Taking Back Sunday, New Politics, Jazz Cartier & More

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Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration
Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration

Yesterday capped off another successful year of Lollapalooza’s evil step-brother, Chicago’s Riot Fest. With headlining performances from Modest Mouse and Snoop Dogg and some great sets from New Politics, Kongos, Jazz Cartier and more, fans definitely got their money’s worth. And if all of the above wasn’t enough, Taking Back Sunday even treated fans to a surprise performance mid-day, at one of the festival’s smallest stages.

Check out our photos below, of what Day 3 of Riot Fest (Chicago) had to offer in 2015.

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Riot Fest (Chicago) Day 1 in Photos: Post Malone, Heems, Alex Wiley

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Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration
Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration

Today marked the first day of Lollapalooza’s evil step-brother, Riot Fest. Today Chicago’s biggest rock fans saw performances across a number of different genres, with some great sets from Heems (formerly of Das Racist), Alex Wiley, Ice Cube, No Doubt, Post Malone, Atreyu and many more. We made sure to catch some of our favorite rap artists and before we left for the night, we even caught a bit of Ice Cube and No Doubt’s huge headlining performances.

Check out our photos below, of what Day 1 of Riot Fest (Chicago) had to offer in 2015, and make sure not to miss tomorrow’s artists.

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North Coast Music Festival Day 3 in Photos: Portugal. The Man, Twin Shadow, Stefan Ponce & More

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Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration
Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration

Today marked the last day of “Summer’s Last Stand”, Chicago’s North Coast Music Festival. But don’t worry because next year’s NCMF is only a year away! Coasties on Sunday saw some great performances from Atmosphere, Stefan Ponce, Portugal. The Man, Twin Shadow, Porn & Chicken and more! Like the first two days of the Union Park festival, tonight had something for everyone and we made sure to catch it all!

Check out our photos below, of what Day 3 of the North Coast Music Festival had to offer.

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North Coast Music Festival Day 2 in Photos: D’Angelo, The Roots, Steve Aoki & More

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Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration
Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration

Today marked the second day of Chicago’s North Coast Music Festival in 2015. Coasties on Saturday saw some great performances from The Roots, D’Angelo and the Vanguard, Steve Aoki, Galactic with Macy Gray, Phoebe Ryan, Chromeo and more! We also had the chance to sit down with Chicago’s own, artist/producer Stefan Ponce, for an interview (coming soon). Like Day One, tonight had something for everyone and we made sure to catch it all!

Check out our photos below, of what Day 2 of the North Coast Music Festival had to offer in 2015, and make sure not to miss tomorrow’s artists (Atmosphere, Twin Shadow, Stefan Ponce and many more).

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North Coast Music Festival Day 1 in Photos: Wale, Skizzy Mars, Leather Corduroys & More

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Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration
Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration

Today marked the first day of Chicago’s North Coast Music Festival in 2015. Today Coasties saw some awesome performances from a number of different genres. Rap fans saw sets from MMG’s Wale, SAVEMONEY’s Leather Corduroys (Joey Purp and Kami de Chukwu) and the talented Skizzy Mars. Bassheads danced their asses off to performances from The Glitch Mob and Knife Party. And the old school fans even left happy, as they saw a great set from the legendary Widespread Panic. Day one had something for everyone, and we made sure to catch it all!

Check out our photos below, of what Day 1 of the North Coast Music Festival had to offer in 2015, and make sure not to miss tomorrow’s artists (Steve Aoki, D’Angelo and more).

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Interview | Benjamin Booker

BY MERHAWI HAILE

Benjamin Booker
Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration

American singer-songwriter, Benjamin Booker, coming off his critically acclaimed eponymous debut album, has led a successful nationwide tour and has left his mark on festival stages worldwide. Booker took some time out for us to discuss touring, the development of his short film, and social commentary in music. Read our full Q&A with the talented New Orleans based guitarist below.

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Now Introducing: The Early Registration Sports

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Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration

With the summer ending, so are the music festivals, and that leaves us with some added time on our hands. And while we hate to see the temperature dropping, like many others, we can’t wait for the sports season to start up again. NFL Pre-Season has finally kicked off and it won’t be long until everyone reserves their weekends for College and Pro Football. Then comes the NBA, NHL, College Basketball and much more, and in just a couple months. So even though delivering your music news, features, photos and interviews will always be our first priority, we are very excited to announce that we will be expanding our coverage to the Sport’s World as this fall!

The Early Registration Sports (still at home at TheEarlyRegistration.com) will be our whole new section dedicated 100% to sports. We are bringing on a whole new team of writers to deliver columns, lists, photos and news all throughout the sports world. You can expect the coverage to start this September, and as with our music coverage last year, we only expect things to grow more and more as time goes on. Stay tuned for more information and start looking out for our sports columns next month!

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Photos: The Foo Fighters Perform for a Sold Out Wrigley Field in Chicago

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Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration
Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration

Minutes ago, fans left the historic Wrigley Field, as The Foo Fighters played through the rain to give a killer set to a sold out Chicago crowd. Attributing the Windy City for the launch of his career, Dave Grohl told fans about the first rock show that made him want to be a rock star, just across the street from Wrigley as he saw his openers tonight (Naked Raygun) perform. In addition to Naked Raygun, fans tonight also saw great sets from more of Chicago’s finest, with Cheap Trick and Urge Overkill. It’s not easy to follow Billy Joel (who performed at Wrigley just two nights ago), but boot and all, nothing was stopping Grohl and The Foo Fighters from giving Chicago a hell of a performance tonight!

Check out our photos below and be sure to check out if The Foo Fighters are coming to a city near you.

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Photos: Billy Joel and Gavin DeGraw Perform at Wrigley Field in Chicago

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Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration
Photo by Dan Garcia/The Early Registration

Minutes ago, Billy Joel stepped off stage after his sold-out performance at the legendary Wrigley Field in Chicago, the home of the Chicago Cubs and a second home to Billy Joel in the nation’s Second City. Now the only musician to ever perform four shows at Wrigley and the only musician to perform at the ballpark in consecutive years, the Piano Man gave his Windy City fans everything they wanted and more tonight. Fans were also treated to an opening set from ‘Chariot’ and ‘I Don’t Want To Be’ singer, Gavin DeGraw.

Check out our photos from Billy Joel’s Chicago tour stop below and if he is coming to a city near you, get your tickets now (if it’s not too late)!

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